William Byron eSports’ John Gorlinsky sliced through one of the wildest last-lap wrecks in iRacing history to score the victory in Wednesday night’s Clash at Daytona International Speedway, the preseason test event for the 2020 eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series season. Held just hours after the announcement that Coca-Cola would sign on as the series’ new title partner and that the final six races of the year would be shown on NBCSN, Gorlinsky backed up his Daytona win in the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Series with an unlikely triumph in the NASCAR Cup Series car despite starting the last lap in 16th place.

Wednesday’s race may have just been for bragging rights, but the 38 drivers who took the green flag put on quite the show nonetheless in the 50-lap battle. The first 49 laps were a masterclass in superspeedway driving, with restrictor plate standouts like polesitter Nick Ottinger leading a race-high 27 laps in the other Byron car and rookie Kollin Keister pacing the field late for Roush Fenway Racing. When the white flag flew, Keister, Joe Gibbs Racing newcomer Malik Ray, and 2014 eNASCAR champion Michael Conti were in the top three spots, each poised to go for the victory.

Heading towards Turn 3, however, calamity struck. With Conti pushing him, Ray slid up and scraped the outside wall. Casey Kirwan and Ray Alfalla attempted to avoid rear-ending Conti and Blake Reynolds, who had been behind Ray, and both made contact with other cars as the field went four wide. Alfalla bounced off of Kirwan into Bob Bryant and Garrett Lowe, Bryant spun Reynolds, and the slightest tap from Reynolds sent Keister into Conti.

From there, it was all about luck. Conti shot out of the wreck with the best chance of clearing it, but slid out of control into the outside wall. Gorlinsky and Lowe rocketed in behind him, but while Lowe slammed into the back of Conti’s machine, Gorlinsky only found the wall and was able to carry forward. Bent but not broken, the damaged #97 Chevrolet was still clear enough of the rest of the field to score a 3.252-second victory over JTG Daugherty Racing’s Christian Challiner, who had taken the white flag in 15th. Burton Kligerman Esports’ Logan Clampitt jumped from 30th to third.

Results of the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series Clash at Daytona were as follows:

Fin.

St.

No.

Driver

Status

Laps

Interval

Led

Best

1

13

97

John Gorlinsky

Running

50

0

1

45.000

2

6

37

Christian Challiner

Running

50

-3.252

0

44.923

3

15

99

Logan Clampitt

Running

50

-3.533

0

45.196

4

28

90

Zack Novak

Running

50

-3.589

0

44.776

5

9

83

Bobby Zalenski

Running

50

-5.958

0

45.006

6

2

1

Steve Sheehan

Running

50

-11.654

5

45.088

7

33

55

Caine Cook

Running

50

-11.658

0

44.841

8

18

54

Alex McCollum3

Running

50

-11.745

0

44.797

9

27

46

Jimmy Mullis

Running

50

-11.915

0

44.750

10

1

25

Nick Ottinger

Running

50

-12.252

27

44.758

11

23

10

Justin Bolton

Running

50

-13.033

0

45.110

12

32

8

Michael Conti

Running

50

-14.259

0

45.120

13

3

47

Jeremy R Allen

Running

50

-15.562

0

45.093

14

5

2

Ray Alfalla

Running

50

-16.369

0

44.699

15

19

41

Dylan Duval

Running

50

-17.438

1

44.899

16

12

33

Michael Guest

Running

50

-19.223

0

44.997

17

20

53

Ryan Michael Luza

Running

50

-19.24

0

44.842

18

7

75

Phillip Diaz

Running

50

-19.495

0

45.060

19

35

42

Bob Bryant

Running

50

-20.198

0

45.112

20

21

21

Garrett Lowe

Running

50

-21.143

1

44.811

21

22

24

Jake Nichols

Running

50

-23.275

0

44.985

22

17

66

Jarl Teien

Running

50

-23.756

0

44.895

23

8

16

Chris Overland

Running

50

-24.125

0

44.972

24

4

32

Keegan Leahy

Running

50

-24.635

1

45.089

25

36

4

Santiago Tirres

Running

50

-25.313

0

45.119

26

25

18

Graham A. Bowlin

Running

50

-25.519

0

44.732

27

10

14

Brandon Hayse Kettelle

Running

50

-25.851

2

44.770

28

29

3

Blake Reynolds

Running

50

-26.961

0

44.800

29

30

23

Casey Kirwan

Running

50

-28.705

0

44.852

30

37

15

Michael Guariglia

Running

50

-34.549

0

44.761

31

26

27

Corey Vincent

Running

50

-34.778

0

44.816

32

38

5

Matt Bussa

Running

50

-35.935

0

44.913

33

16

51

Malik Ray

Running

50

-37.684

3

44.925

34

11

77

Ashton Crowder

Running

50

-38.898

0

44.996

35

31

17

Kollin Keister

Running

49

-1 L

9

44.834

36

14

9

Eric J. Smith

Running

49

-1 L

0

44.861

37

34

36

Chris Shearburn

Running

49

-1 L

0

44.898

38

24

6

Nathan Lyon

Running

49

-1 L

0

45.063

The 2020 eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series season officially starts on February 11 with another round at Daytona. The race will be streamed live on iRacing’s Facebook, Twitch, and YouTube channels at 9PM ET/6PM PT. For more information on iRacing and for special offers, visit www.iracing.com.

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